Obamacare, Dodd-Frank, Consumer Financial “Protection” Agency, EPA, etc? Land of the free is now the land of the over-regulated.

Check it out. Obama holds the record for the four largest increases regulatory pages, George W. Bush is in 5th place, then Obama again in places 6-8, Bush again in places in places 9-10, then finally Obama again in 11th place.

To emphasize, Ivey admits that the left has ‘conspired’ to “produce an unaware and compliant citizenry” but that they’re not as easy to manipulate anymore and that this is a problem. He characterizes “unawareness” amongst the public as a positive thing for the Clinton campaign.

Ivey ends the email by saying he will attend a Clinton fundraiser and that he fears, “we are all now trying to navigate a set of forces that cannot be simply explained or fully understood.”

The email is a shocking insight into the elitist and arrogant mindset that pervades the Clinton campaign, with Americans viewed as dumb sheep who need to be herded in the right direction.

Just as we predicted on a sleepy Friday afternoon ahead of a long weekend, The FBI has released a detailed report on its investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, as well as a summary of her interview with agents, providing, what The Washington Post says is the most thorough look yet at the probe that has dogged the campaign of the Democratic presidential nominee.
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As The Washington Post adds, the documents released total 58 pages, though large portions and sometimes entire pages are redacted.
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Key Excerpts...

When thinking about all the work we still have to do, it’s important to keep in mind that we don’t need majority support. If you’re waiting for 51 percent of the population to say “I’m libertarian and I believe everything you say,” you’ll lose your mind. What we need for success is intellectual leadership in a country that can influence government and the society overall.

That’s where the progress is being made. We’re only talking about 7 or 8 percent of a country that is necessary to provide the kind of influence you need. This was the case during the American Revolution, and it’s true today. You are part of that 8 percent.

To be very clear, the NICS system is retaining records of legal purchases, it is sharing that information with other agencies, it is retaining and sharing information containing enough detail to match the purchaser to a government created list, and now the US government is publicizing the fact that it is doing this even though it is a violation of federal law.

This comes at a time when the government is making another power-grab for firearms. If we can’t trust the government to obey its own laws, how can we trust them with more power? This revelation leaves those seeking sensible reform to a shoddy gun control system in the lurch. It has become clear the only way to avoid having your

Responsible for helping cover up the CIA’s torture program, the same judge dismissed a lawsuit on Friday filed by the ACLU, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Wikipedia, and other organizations accusing the NSA of conducting mass surveillance. Although it is now common knowledge that the NSA can retroactively access phone records, text messages, emails, internet activity, GPS locations, and metadata, the judge dismissed the suit because the NSA refuses to admit that they are incessantly violating our constitutional rights.
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By playing the national security card, the NSA proved once again that it is currently immune to public scrutiny and accountability. If the ruling stands,

Confirming once again that the U.S. has full devolved into a total banana republic, moments ago CNN reported that the US Department of "Justice" is closing its two-year investigation into whether the IRS improperly targeted tea party and other conservative groups. There will be no charges against former IRS official Lois Lerner or anyone else at the agency, the Justice Department said in a letter.
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So now we know that in addition to insider traders working for SAC, targeting conservatives is, according to the DOJ, also not a crime.

What is a crime? Blowing the whistle on the Big Brother state, where every single electronic communication among US citizens

The race to replace John Boehner is on. And things got even more pressing when Boehner announced yesterday that the House GOP would hold early elections for new leadership — on Thursday, October 8 — a move that seems intended to stop the opposition from having enough time to organize.

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is clearly the odds-on favorite to become the next House speaker. Still, conservative Republicans are casting about for Tea Party-friendly alternatives who might be able to capitalize on the fact that McCarthy doesn't quite have the votes. But their picks, like Reps. Daniel Webster (R-Fla.) and Peter Roskam (R-Ill.), don't exactly fire the imagination.

I have a better suggestion: Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.). Here are five reasons why...

1. Amash is a stickler for House rules who has never missed a vote. ... Amash is also a stickler for the Constitution...
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2. Amash personally explains every vote he casts on his Facebook page. And again, that's a lot of votes. If he continued this practice as speaker, Amash could offer Americans an unprecedented look at the internal workings and politics of Congress. This hypothetical transparency upgrade isn't on the table with any other candidate for the next speaker.

When Carly Fiorina told a Republican debate audience what the country needs to have “the strongest military on the face of the planet”—50 Army brigades, 36 Marine battalions, at least 300 naval ships, a rebuild of the Sixth Fleet and an upgrade of “every leg of the nuclear triad”—it sounded a bit familiar.

“These numbers seem to be pulled straight from a report released by the conservative Heritage Foundation this year,” noted The Daily Beast’s Kate Brannen, and many of them were. While analysts like Brannen were able to discount the numbers as nothing more
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Candidates who have spent little or no time studying or traveling to the rest of the world, and, in the fashion of many Americans in the age of Empire, see the rest of the world as just a series of US colonial outposts, apparently consider foreign policy unworthy of serious consideration.

So little do Republican candidates care about foreign policy that most of them have “outsourced” their foreign policy to a single neocon-dominated foreign policy shop called the “John Hay Initiative.” If you wonder why most Republican candidates sound exactly the same on foreign policy, it’s because they are nearly all getting their advice from the same people.

Hello everyone!
As most of you know, I am running for NC State House out of the 7th District.
What many of you may not know, is on the last day of filing, I received a primary challenge.
We did not actually expect a primary challenger, but we do have one. My opponent is wealthy and largely self-funding, but her funds are listed as loans and she will be getting every penny of that back...

Unless one of two things occur:
The "movement" becomes sufficiently organized, or
A "reset event" occurs.
Addressing point the second, firstly: If worldwide plague, a large meteor strike, Jesus popping back in from wherever, aliens landing on the South Lawn, or something similar occurs, the utter disruption of the status quo would open the door to freedom enough such that if enough...

Is slavery any less despicable, even if by choice?
I had an epiphany last night. My username on here is truly a good example of how I, and millions of others mind you, feel in this day and age. I argue that this is not by choice, but by threat of violence. Here is what I see:
1. We are as free as our government masters, down to the petty tyrant at the DMV, allow us. Test my assertion...

He was on such a roll. But seemed very quiet this election cycle. He went back to FOX, but His truth in media site hardly gets updated anymore. I feel he and a few other "investigative journalists" had their backs turned as the other team was scoring touchdowns this election cycle. He and someone like Jon Stewart could of changed this election. In 2012, they brought up a lot about the "other...

Ron Paul & Rand Paul: News & Discussion

I ask because he has some more traditional/establishment views than his dad, and calls himself a libertarian-republican. He is not exactly a pro-weed advocate.
But I wonder if he is doing all of this for the long game and if he ever gets in power, libertarian-land here we come...

Scientific American continues on its activist leftward path, diluting its scientific brand by transmitting biased anti-gun propaganda under the cover of academic sociology.
The latest entry was posted Wednesday and has become a popular post: “Why Are White Men Stockpiling Guns? — Research suggests it’s largely because they’re anxious about their ability to protect their families, insecure...

I thought debt would decrease under GOP cut-spending/small gummit regime:
Saturday, March 17, 2018
National debt hits $21 trillion
Federal borrowing has been on the rise again since February, when Congress passed legislation to suspend the debt ceiling. (Mark...

EXCLUSIVE: Head Of Libertarian Party Named In Wikileaks List Of Secret US Intelligence Assets
Documents obtained through Wikileaks reveal that the current Chairman of the Libertarian Party has a relationship with the disgraced Stratfor intelligence group.
By John Vibes - March 17, 2018
In late 2011, hackers managed to crack into the databases of the global intelligence firm Stratfor and...

White House Legislative Affairs Director Marc Short complained of Senate Democrats’ obstruction of President Donald Trump’s nominees, saying at this rate, it will take 11 and a half years for his nominees to be given an up-or-down vote.
In the last four administrations combined, the Senate held 17 cloture votes of presidential nominees compared to the 79 cloture vote in the first 14...

US CENTCOM Chief Comes Clean: General's Three Stunning Admissions In The Mid-East
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-18/us-centcom-chief-comes-clean-generals-three-stunning-admissions-mid-east
Assad has won
Iran deal should stand
Saudis use American weapons without accountability in Yemen
U.S. Army General Joseph Votel's stunning Congressional testimony

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/03/14/237248/toys-r-us-to-close-all-800-of-its-us-stores
Everything is awesome!
Its okay tho since you can just go to Amazon and get all the same $#@!! Screw Toys Were Us, they had a bad business model! Its their own fault and the economy is STRONG! Jesus, I keep talking like that, I will probably deserve some negative rep!

I'm curious to see how fast the debt rises over the next few months before we hit the next debt ceiling. We normally borrow a trillion a year, so that would put us at about 20.9 trillion by year's end, plus we got hit by 3 hurricanes. The debt is only at 20.2 so we'd have to borrow another 800 billion or so before the end of the year to catch up. Although my guess is they can't borrow that much...

This study sends bit different message than the one in news few days ago that covered longevity promoting effects.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/america-binge-175-billion-drinks-worth-study/story?id=53795860

This fall the Indians on a remote reservation asked their new Chief Oyarde if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild.
Since he was a chief in a modern society, he’d never learned the old tribal secrets. He couldn’t look at the sky to predict what the winter was going to be like.
"It's going to be a very cold winter."
So just to be on the safe side, Oyarde told his tribe that the...

Drinking alcohol key to living past 90
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/drinking-alcohol-key-living-90-article-1.3829634
Monday, February 19, 2018, 12:07 PM
Cheers to life — seriously.
When it comes to making it into your 90s, booze actually beats exercise, according to a long-term study.

As I read and see and hear the rhetoric of those we may conversationally label as "the left", it becomes clearer with each passing day that America is nigh upon what may be its most critical nexus to date, one possible result standing to see the dismantling of the last hope for humanity to escape global, technologically-enabled servitude of a nature and completeness never before experienced.
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I was confabbing with my little brother the other day - brother of another mother, that is. He is one of the more brilliant men I have known in my lifetime.
We were discussing the hows and whys of the successes of the so-called "left" vis-à-vis the predictable failures of the so-called "right". I made the point that the left is well funded and well-organized, whereas the right appear to be...

Today, March 16, Marks the 50 Year Anniversary of the My Lai Massacre
March 16 marks the 50th anniversary of the date that does not live in infamy. … In 1968, American soldiers slaughtered animals, raped villagers, and murdered 109 "Oriental human beings" in My Lai. That was the number cited in a court-martial 18 months later.
The memorial there today, however, lists 504 men, women, and...

Provincial life continued much as it had in districts like Cornwall. Frontier villas remained profitable for a time, commerce didn't just disappear when Odoacer took Rome in the 400s. Even after violence done upon them, by man or by nature, civilization doesn't need to just stop either - it can continue - but at some time Western Roman civilization collapsed.
As a rule, we don't just point to...